Skip to content
The Noble SageSouth Asian Contemporary Art
GalleryArtistsOn ViewExhibitionsTestimonialsDirector's ProfileAbout
Sign in
The Noble Sage

A London art house since 2006, specialising in Indian, Sri Lankan and Pakistani modern & contemporary art. Viewable by appointment.

Explore
GalleryArtistsOn ViewExhibitions
Gallery
About UsDirector’s ProfilePressArt ToursContact
Notices from the wall

New acquisitions, viewing-room openings and the occasional note from Jana. A few times a year, never more.

InstagramFacebookXYouTubeLinkedIn
reception@thenoblesage.com·+44 (0)7901944997·North London, UK
Terms & Conditions·© 2006–2026 The Noble Sage
Noble Sage
← Back to gallery
Elsner
Poland · 1990

You ask, how can we know the infinite? I answer, not by reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can apprehend the Infinite by a faculty superior to to reason, by entering into a state in which you are your finite self no longer - in which the divine essence is communicated to you. This is exstasy. It is the liberation of your mind from its finite consciousness.,,, But this sublime condition is not of permanent duration. It is only now and then that we can enjoy this elevation above the limits of the body and the world. - Plotinus: Letters to Flaccus, From P.D. Ouspensky: Tertium Organum

Dante Elsner

The full title reads like an academic footnote, yet the accompanying image is simple: a serene head in a yellow-orange outline floating within a pink aura. It most eloquently represents to Elsner the state we must all aim for: the pink surround being the impermanence and inferiority of reason we must unchain ourselves from in order to absorb the divine.

Medium
Watercolour on Japanese Mulberry paper on painted board
Year
1990
Dimensions
Unframed42 × 19 inFramed49 × 26 in
Origin
Poland
Code
DAN0026
Price on request
Enquire
✓ Worldwide delivery✓ Certificate of authenticity
Mullar Nassr Eddin by Dante Elsner — Ink and watercolour on Japanese Mulberry paper on painted canvas, c.1978
About the artist
Dante Elsner
Contemporary · Krakow, Poland
→
You may also love

Related works

Mullar Nassr Eddin by Dante Elsner — Ink and watercolour on Japanese Mulberry paper on painted canvas, c.1978
View work →

Mullar Nassr Eddin · c.1978

Dante Elsner
You ask, how can we know the infinite? I answer, not by reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can apprehend the Infinite by a faculty superior to to reason, by entering into a state in which you are your finite self no longer - in which the divine essence is communicated to you. This is exstasy. It is the liberation of your mind from its finite consciousness.,,, But this sublime condition is not of permanent duration. It is only now and then that we can enjoy this elevation above the limits of the body and the world. - Plotinus: Letters to Flaccus, From P.D. Ouspensky: Tertium Organum by Dante Elsner — Watercolour on Japanese Mulberry paper on painted board, 1990
View work →

You ask, how can we know the infinite? I answer, not by reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can apprehend the Infinite by a faculty superior to to reason, by entering into a state in which you are your finite self no longer - in which the divine essence is communicated to you. This is exstasy. It is the liberation of your mind from its finite consciousness.,,, But this sublime condition is not of permanent duration. It is only now and then that we can enjoy this elevation above the limits of the body and the world. - Plotinus: Letters to Flaccus, From P.D. Ouspensky: Tertium Organum · 1990

Dante Elsner
A small Nobody in contact with Great Space, Great Nobody by Dante Elsner — Ink and watercolour on Japanese Mulberry paper on painted canvas, 1980
View work →

A small Nobody in contact with Great Space, Great Nobody · 1980

Dante Elsner
Girl and the Parrots by A.P. Santhanaraj — Pen and ink on paper,
View work →

Girl and the Parrots ·

A.P. Santhanaraj